There are plans afoot to replace the UK government’s computer systems with a “cloud” and free software.
The government will also push for “open source” software to be used more widely among central and local government’s 4m desktop computers. That poses an immediate threat to Microsoft, whose Windows operating system and Office applications suite is at present firmly embedded as the standard on PCs in government..
I doubt that Microsoft would sit idly by and let this happen, though.
